Like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from which she hails, Manal AlDowayan’s life has evolved dramatically over the past two decades. The multidisciplinary artist grew up in the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) residential compound in Dhahran during the 1980s, studied computer science at Boston’s Suffolk University, and, after completing her master’s degree in London in 2003, spent a decade working as a programmer at Aramco. In the years since becoming a full-time artist, AlDowayan has gained widespread critical acclaim for her richly historical works that, through their introspective depictions of personal histories, have managed to dissect the politics of collective memory as well as Saudi identity.